On January 22, 1973, the landmark judgment on the Roe v Wade case was passed by the United States Supreme Court. The judgment ...

All this would suggest that the czar’s lack of competence and will doomed the Romanov dynasty, despite Nicholas II having survived Russia’s 1905 revolution, which had forced him to accept a ...

It has forced Russia to reorient its lucrative European energy trade to less profitable markets. Like Czar Nicholas II, Russian President Vladimir Putin has misidentified his primary foe.

The Japanese author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa successfully argues that, far from being inevitable, the blame for the fall of Nicholas ...

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he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to ...

Russian author and poet Alexander Pushkin. The liberal city by the sea was a radical one too: “A nest of conspirators,” in the words of Tsar Nicholas I. A secret Greek society plotted the ...

More than a century after the Russian Revolution, the downfall of the Romanov dynasty continues to fascinate and enthrall. The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years ...

In 1915, German prisoners of war, kept at a hospital in Saratov, arranged a Christmas party, consequently triggering enraged comments from Russian dailies. Thus, Emperor Nicholas II banned the ...